Records of The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, 1942-2011

Sulzberger, Frank L. (Frank Leopold), 1887-1981

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Frank L. Sulzberger was president and chairman of the board of the Enterprise Paint Manufacturing Company. He was a philanthropist and involved in many organizations such as the Jewish Charities of Chicago, the University of Chicago, the American Jewish Committee, the Joint Distribution Committee, the Illinois Public Aid Commission, the Community Fund, predecessor to United Way, the Community Trust, and the national Committee for Economic Development....

Cronkhite, Bernice Brown, 1893-1983

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Bernice Brown Cronkhite was born in Calais, Maine in 1893 and after the death of her mother in 1896, was brought up with her older brother, by her father and aunt. She attended schools in Providence, Rhode Island and following graduation from high school taught school in Tiverton for one year. She attended Radcliffe, 1912-1916, because of its course offerings in government and law and received a "distant work" scholarship because she came from a city outside of Boston. While at Radcliffe for rea...

National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs (U.S.)

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White, Eva Whiting, 1885-1974

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Eva Whiting was born in Webster, Mass., in 1880, daughter of Frederick Herbert and Marie Emma (Le Roy) Whiting. In 1902 she married Wesley Dunn Allen White. Having earned the first B.S. in social work from Simmons College in 1907, she pursued graduate studies in social work at the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University. Whiting was Headworker at Elizabeth Peabody House (EPH), 1909-1944; professor of social economy at Simmons College, 1922-1950; non-resi...

Women's Educational and Industrial Union (Boston, Mass.)

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The Women's Educational and Industrial Union (Boston, Massachusetts), a non-profit social and educational agency, was founded in 1877 by Dr. Harriet Clisby, and incorporated in 1880, "to increase fellowship among women and to promote the best practical methods for securing their educational, industrial and social advancement." In order to accomplish this mission, the organization was arranged in committees or departments which throughout its hist...

Jordan, W. K. (Wilbur Kitchener), 1902-1980

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Wilbur Kitchener Jordan (also known as W. K. Jordan), (1902-1980) was an American historian, specializing in sixteenth and seventeenth century Britain. Raised in Lynnville, Indiana, Jordan received a bachelor's degree from Oakland City College in 1923, before earning a master's (1926) and doctoral (1931) degree from Harvard University. Jordan went on to become a leading historian of sixteenth and seventeenth century England, accruing many honors, and producing books, including Men of Substanc...

World Center for Women's Archives (New York, N.Y.)

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World Center for Women's Archives was an organization established by Rosika Schwimmer and Mary Ritter Beard in the hopes of creating an educational collection which women could consult to learn about the history of women. The center was located in the Biltmore Hotel at 41 Park Avenue in New York City. It closed in 1940, but the efforts made to establish a center to collect records encouraged several colleges and universities to begin develop similar archives of women's history. It was one of the...

Stantial, Edna Lamprey, 1897-1985

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Edna Lamprey Stantial (1897-1985) was an American suffragist and archivist. Edna Frances Lamprey was born in 1897 in Reading, Massachusetts. Her parents were Mollie McClelland Stantial and Frank Stantial. She attended Melrose High School and graduated in 1913. She attended Burdette College, a now defunct business school in Massachusetts, where she was certified as a secretary in 1914. She served as a secretary at the Economic Club of Boston from 1914 until 1916. On June 8, 1918, Stantial marr...

Park, Maud Wood, 1871-1955

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Maud Wood Park (January 25, 1871 – May 8, 1955) was an American suffragist and women's rights activist. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1887 she graduated from St. Agnes School in Albany, New York, after which she taught for eight years before attending Radcliffe College. While there she married Charles Edward Park. She graduated from Radcliffe, where she was one of only two students who supported suffrage for women, in 1898. In 1900 she attended the National American Women Suffrage...

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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The Schlesinger Library had its origins in the gift of the Woman's Rights Collection (WRC) by Maud Wood Park '98 to Radcliffe College in 1943. Organized as the Women's Archives in 1948, it was renamed the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America in 1967 in recognition of the Schlesingers' strong support of the Library and the College. The WRC was originally housed in Longfellow Hall and the Women's Archives in Byerly Hall and moved in 1967 to the old Radcliffe...

Perkins, Frances, 1880-1965

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Frances Perkins (born Fannie Coralie Perkins; April 10, 1880 – May 14, 1965) was an American sociologist and workers-rights advocate who served as the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. As a loyal supporter of her friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), she helped pull the labor movement into the New Deal coalition. She and Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes were the only original members of the Rooseve...

Jacobi, Mary Putnam, 1842-1906

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Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi (August 31, 1842 – June 10, 1906) was an esteemed American medical physician, teacher, scientist, writer, and suffragist. She was the first woman to study medicine at the University of Paris, and had a long career practicing medicine, teaching, writing, and advocating for women's rights, especially in medical education. Disparaging anecdotal evidence and traditional approaches, she demanded rigorous scientific research on every question of the day. Her scientific rebut...

Schlesinger, Elizabeth Bancroft

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Historian and civic worker (Ohio State University, Columbus, B.A., 1910) Schlesinger was chairman of the Committee on Education of the Cambridge (Mass.) League of Women Voters, on the board of the American Association of University Women of Boston, the Cambridge Public Library, and the Radcliffe Women's Archives (which became the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America), and wrote articles and gave talks on women's history. She married historian Arthur Meier S...

Dreier, Katherine Sophie, 1877-1952

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Painter and co-founder/president of the Société Anonyme, Inc. From the description of Correspondence, 1928-1929. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 122577860 Katherine S. Dreier, artist, promoter of modern art, and co-founder of the Société Anonyme. Société Anonyme, organization founded in 1920 by Katherine S. Dreier, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray to promote modern art among the public. From the description of Katherin...

Women's Trade Union League

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The Women's Trade Union League was established by Mrs Patterson in 1874. By the 1890s ten London Unions, and over thirty provincial unions were affiliated from Bookbinding, Shirt and Collar Making, Tailoring, Dressmaking and Milinery, Cigar Making Match and Matchbox Making, Ropemaking, Weaving, Laundry, Boot and Shoe Making, Silk Working, Upholstery, Lace Making, Pottery, Paper Making and Shop Working. The League was absorbed into the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in 1921. From the gui...

Franey, Pierre

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Child, Julia, 1912-2004

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Julia Child, cookbook writer, cookery teacher, and TV personality, was born Julia Carolyn McWilliams, in Pasadena, California, on August 15, 1912. She attended the Katharine Branson School in Ross, California (1927-1930), and graduated from Smith College in 1934. She worked in public relations in New York City (1934-1941) and served in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS, 1941-1946). She was stationed in Ceylon, where she met her future husband, and in China. In 1946, sh...

Beard, Mary Ritter, 1876-1958

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Historian, feminist, and author. Married historian Charles Beard. From the description of Papers, 1935-1958 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006703 From the description of Letters, 1937-1942 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008676 Beard was an American author and historian. From the description of Correspondence: [1938?]-1959. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155180912 Mary Ritter Bear...

Berkshire Conference on the History of Women (1974 : Cambridge, Mass.).

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Radcliffe College

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Vocational short courses and institutes were initiated by the Radcliffe Appointment Bureau to train students for careers after graduation. Among these courses were: the Institute on Historical and Archival Management, 1954-1960; Communications for the Volunteer, 1965-1968; Summer Secretarial Course, 1935-1955, and the Radcliffe Publishing Course (formerly Publishing Procedures Course), 1947-, which continues to offer a six-week summer course in publishing. From the description of Rad...

King, Patricia Miller

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A graduate of Radcliffe (B.A. 1959) and Harvard (Ph.D 1970), Patricia Miller King was director of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America from 1973 until her death in 1994. From the description of Papers, 1970-1994 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008847 ...

Schlesinger, Arthur M. (Arthur Meier), 1888-1965

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Schlesinger taught history at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Sr., 1908-1965 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973175 Historian, author. From the description of Reminiscences of Arthur Meier Schlesinger : oral history, 1959. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309724638 Epithet: Jr, US political analyst British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue...

Radcliffe College. Women's Rights Collection.

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Hinckley, Georgiana Ames

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Radcliffe College Seminar on Women.

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Blackall, Dorothy Brewer, 1890?-1949.

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Blackall was publicity director for the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston from 1932 to 1949. From the description of Papers, 1912-1958 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122611538 ...

Howard, Mary Elizabeth

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Kamman, Madeleine

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James, Janet Wilson, 1918-1987

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Historian Janet Wilson James was educated at Smith (A.B. 1939), Bryn Mawr (M.A. 1940) and Radcliffe (Ph.D. 1954). She taught at Mills and Wellesley, was an editor of Notable American Women, 1607-1950, was director of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, (1965-1969) and professor of history at Boston College from 1971 until her death. She died in Cambridge, Mass., in 1987. From the description of Papers, 1893-1999 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008160...

Haber, Barbara

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Cheek, Jeannette Bailey

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Cheek was director of the Schlesinger Library, 1969-1973. From the description of Collection, 1857-1904 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007177 ...

Solomon, Barbara M.

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Grierson, Margaret

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Pepin, Jacques, 1958-

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Radcliffe College. Women's Archives

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Canfield, Dorothy, 1879-1958.

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher was a skilled educator and popular author. Many of her works were written for children, but enjoyed by adults. Her stories are insightful and caring, honest and clever, and generally conservative in style and theme. She was also very active in civic and charitable concerns. From the description of Dorothy Canfield Fisher letters and memoriam, 1943 and 1958. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 316880511 ...

Borden, Elizabeth McGinley

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Thackerey, Dorothy S.

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National Council of Women of the United States

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The National Council of Women of the United States (NCW) is an organization comprised of women's voluntary organizations with a common interest in the social, educational, and political rights of women. Its primary purpose is to act as a clearing-house or information bureau for its members in order to broaden awareness of each other's activities and to increase cooperation and reduce duplication of efforts among them. Along with its affiliate organization, the International Council of Women, the...

Gray, Helen Lingenfelter, d. 1989.

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A graduate of Radcliffe College (A.B. 1932) and American University Law School, Gray was for twenty years a volunteer organizer and consultant for the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts and Massachusetts Political Action for Peace. An advocate for women's rights, she also volunteered her legal services at the Boston Legal Aid Society. She was married to John Chipman Gray; they had three sons. From the description of Papers, 1960-1985 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat re...

Claiborne, Craig, 1920-2000

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Food editor of the New York Times and cookbook author; b. 1920; d. 2000. From the description of Craig Claiborne collection, 1964-1979. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70926406 Craig Claiborne, a chef and author of many cookbooks, was food editor of the New York Times. From the description of Letters, 1968-1986 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007764 ...